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Azarkon
United States21060 Posts
The imports did not necessarily put China above Korea given what Deft and Pawn said in the interview, but it did pay dividends, albeit with 9/12 teams doing it, it came down to who had the best import+local synergy. In LoL, communication looks to be less important than raw individual skill. Of course, a team with both communication and individual skill is bound to outperform, but when picking between the two, individual skill trumps communication. | ||
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MajorityofOne
Canada2506 Posts
Imp confirmed realest carry of SSW | ||
TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On April 17 2015 21:07 Azarkon wrote: I just want to observe that all semifinalists in LPL have 2/5 Koreans. That's not really much of an observation when literally only one team (OMG) without 2/5 Koreans was ever in contention for being semifinalists. | ||
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chosenkerrigan
858 Posts
On April 17 2015 21:07 Azarkon wrote: I just want to observe that all semifinalists in LPL have 2/5 Koreans. The imports did not necessarily put China above Korea given what Deft and Pawn said in the interview, but it did pay dividends, albeit with 9/12 teams doing it, it came down to who had the best import+local synergy. In LoL, communication looks to be less important than raw individual skill. Of course, a team with both communication and individual skill is bound to outperform, but when picking between the two, individual skill trumps communication. All semifinalists have 2/5 KR is not that surprising, especially considering those teams who have the money to import elite Koreans tend to have better Chinese players as well. They most likely also have better infrastructure and management thanks to the substantial funding. | ||
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On April 17 2015 20:35 DarkCore wrote: Wasn't TBQ supposed to be the weak link in LGD? He seemed to have had a pretty good series. Props to LGD, they dominated the series, it wasn't even a competition. TBQ was never actually the weak link, he was just easier to scapegoat than Flame (who IS the actual weak link) because fans/netizens love Flame. TBQ could better be described as "invisible"--never good nor bad enough to stand out. | ||
Carnivorous Sheep
Baa?21243 Posts
On April 17 2015 23:13 TheYango wrote: TBQ was never actually the weak link, he was just easier to scapegoat than Flame (who IS the actual weak link) because fans/netizens love Flame. TBQ could better be described as "invisible"--never good nor bad enough to stand out. He used to be real bad and the perception just carried over. He went from negative impact to slight negative/no impact. So net gain~ | ||
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
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TheYango
United States47024 Posts
On April 17 2015 23:57 Carnivorous Sheep wrote: He used to be real bad and the perception just carried over. He went from negative impact to slight negative/no impact. So net gain~ I mean, when TBQ was really bad, the team still had Star, so he still probably wasn't the weak link, lol. | ||
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InvaderUK
225 Posts
apart from for snake vs lgd, snake gogo I baylieve in you | ||
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oo_Wonderful_oo
The land of freedom23126 Posts
On April 17 2015 23:58 cLutZ wrote: How is Wieless/GodV seemingly never punished for Ori picks? Why should Weiless be punished for Orianna pick, rofl. It's not like he picks Janna mid or something in 2015. | ||
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
On April 18 2015 01:00 oo_Wonderful_oo wrote: Why should Weiless be punished for Orianna pick, rofl. It's not like he picks Janna mid or something in 2015. Ori isn't the pick you seem to be imagining in 2015. Base damages, mobility, poke are all ways people have been punishing her since the AD and windup changes. | ||
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Ansibled
United Kingdom9872 Posts
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On April 18 2015 01:11 cLutZ wrote: Ori isn't the pick you seem to be imagining in 2015. Base damages, mobility, poke are all ways people have been punishing her since the AD and windup changes. What? Does she even have a weak lane matchup? At worst it's a farm lane, I don't see how ori pick is exploitable. | ||
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
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LimpingGoat
898 Posts
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cLutZ
United States19574 Posts
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Buonomo
Canada84 Posts
So let me get this straight: In game 1 OMG sets up for a heavy scaling comp with Lulu, Janna, Hec They see that LGD has an excellent team for midgame teamfighting and early jungle skirmishes with Kennen, Kalista, Nunu, Gnar They then pick Rengar, a hero who likes to do early skirmishes and midgame teamfights and Tristana, a heavy scaling hero with a massive midgame power trough Then they try to skirmish against LGD ???????????????????????????????????? FIRE EVERYONE Edit: they also did this with Gragas and Kog'maw being open FIRE EVEN MORE PEOPLE Edit2: the fucking 2 item Trist jumps into the 2 item Kalista nice go farm an open side lane Uzi, its the only thing you're good at | ||
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wei2coolman
United States60033 Posts
On April 18 2015 02:08 LimpingGoat wrote: Snake vs. LGD who should I be betting on? Snake, never not Snake. | ||
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Fusilero
United Kingdom50293 Posts
On April 18 2015 03:10 Buonomo wrote: Going back and watching the VoDs atm So let me get this straight: In game OMG sets up for a heavy scaling comp with Lulu, Janna, Hec They see that LGD has an excellent team for midgame teamfighting and early jungle skirmishes with Kennen, Kalista, Nunu, Gnar They then pick Rengar, a hero who likes to do early skirmishes and midgame teamfights and Tristana, a heavy scaling hero with a massive midgame power trough Then they try to skirmish against LGD ???????????????????????????????????? FIRE EVERYONE Edit: they also did this with Gragas and Kog'maw being open FIRE EVEN MORE PEOPLE Edit2: the fucking 2 item Trist jumps into the 2 item Kalista nice go farm an open side lane UZI, its the only thing you're good at People thought that OMG were sandbagging. Turns out they really are that dumb, I suppose uzi is just conserving his energy for worlds :> | ||
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Azarkon
United States21060 Posts
On April 17 2015 23:11 TheYango wrote: That's not really much of an observation when literally only one team (OMG) without 2/5 Koreans was ever in contention for being semifinalists. Eh, King was hyped up higher than Snake going into the split. Hindsight is 20/20 especially when you consider how the communication issues were said to be a huge variable for how well these teams are going to perform. Besides, just the fact that all the successful LPL and LSPL teams imported 2/5 Koreans says a lot in and of itself. Now we just have to see whether the Korea Koreans are still able to monopolize these 2/5 teams. In theory, the exodus ought to have weakened them a lot, and we ought to see other regions be competitive eg what we saw at IEM. But in the event that SKT, CJ, etc. still end up roflstomping through MSI and Worlds, then League outside of Korea is literally hopeless. | ||
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